I have the 3 10.1 Official CD ISOs. Is it possible to "convert" these to a single DVD ISO?

It may be possible, but I think the installer, rpmdrake look for those specific cd's and may not know where to look for them all combined on a DVD.

Why not just D/L the DVD .iso
http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=29

KC

Due to the connection I have I cannot now d/l the DVD ISO

I don't know how to make a dvd from the 3 cds. I know their is a way and someone should be able to tell you how to do it.

Here's another option you may want to take. You can go online and buy these cds from various places. There are some places that sell you the 3 cd for about 6 dollars. I don't know what they would sell the single dvd for. I can't remember the download place but you can search for them and find the cheapest.

I'm at work and can't go too many places on the internet.

Maybe try a search and see it you can find something about making a dvd from the three cds.

Here's a place where you can order linux cd's http://www.linuxpickup.com/default.php/cPath/23_24_43

10.1 Mandrake official 4 cds 8.65
10.1 Mandrake Official 1 DVD 9.95

You might be able to do better. Check around.

You can mount them one by one with mount, copy to a separate place and then burn everything on a DVD it will not guarantee that everything will be found on this new DVD by the installer if there is one as kencaz mentioned before

I've got all the ISOs as I stated. I want to know whether I can convert them to a DVD ISO?

You can copy them as is. Just copy them to DVD. I dont't really understood what you mean by converting. If you mean that instead of asking you n-th cd it will just skip the question, then I dont think so(without interference in the installation program).

The answer is yes.
Note that I never done it.
There is the media/RPMS dir on every cd with the packages and a hdlist.cz file in it. The first CD is the only exception because there are boot images, docs etc there (and of course the installer). I think the most simple is to copy these dirs to the DVD so on your DVD's media directory will be RPMS, RPMS2 etc. dirs. I'm not sure if this works but it should.
Second solution: copy all contents of your CDs to the hard drive this time all packages to the media/RPMS dir so no separate RPMS2,RPMS3 partitions now. And use the method discribed here.

edit: another doc.

Yeah, but what if the installer relies on the installer relies on the label of the disk like NewLinuxCD1,...NewLinuxCDN or if there are 2 directories on CD1 and CD2 that have name DATA and they both happened to have files readme.txt or cd.tar.gz inside, how are we going to merge these directories???

On this page there they describe a way to convert cd-iso to dvd.
http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MakingOwnDVD
/Kristian

I keep coming across this reference to a repositary. Can someone say where this local Mandrake repository is?

It is your local downloaded copy of Mandrake, from for instance http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/dis...ial/2005/i586/

/Kristian

Well you should at least look at those CDs before asking.
As with the CD label yes it's a possibility, use rw DVD for the first time. I wrote I never made a Mandrake DVD, just tried to answer your question.
If you look at CD2 and CD3 you can see there's only one dir that counts, the one called media.
The dir structure looks like this: media/mainX/media_info. The packages are in the mainX dir. The package descriptions are in the media_info/synthesis.hdlist.cz file. X marks the number of the dir e.g. on the first CD there's main, on the second main2 etc. You could put all packages in the media/main dir of your DVD, but then you have to merge the media_info/synthesis.hdlist.cz files, and I dont know how to do it. So I told you to just copy the mainX dirs into the media dir.
There's nothing you should merge in the CDs (you can leave out the Boot dir on CD2).
As you can see from the doc this dir structure is the same as the Mandriva reposytory (except that there's a contrib and a jpackage dir on the ftp mirrors with even more packages that won't fit on a DVD). The Mandriva reposytoris can be found on the Mandriva public mirrors (www.mandrivalinux.com click Downloads etc.).

Download a DVD iso file